Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,587, John Glidden, Continental N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental N.H.
Glidden, John. Abigail
No. 16.587.
CONTENTS

New Hampshire
Abigail Glidden, widow of John Glidden, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the N.H. 1818 of Strafford in the State of N.H. who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Adams of the regt commanded by Col Poor in the N.H. line for 18 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 60 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Augt 1839 & sent to Saml Gil- Siford P.O. N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $180.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 30.00 $210.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by D.M. Curdy, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1, Page 41.
Dead
Paid at the Treasury
Under the Act of the 6 April 1838, from 4 th Sep to 26 Sep 1840 Age Notified 17 March 1843.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
March 9 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The adm rs of Abigail Glidden, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portsmouth, N.H. Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. — to the 26 th Sept. 1840, Respectfully, yours,
William B. Harris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel Cookman is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Merrimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 8 th day of January 18 38 and will expire on the 8 th day of January 18 43 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of
June 18 39 Josiah Stevens
Secretary of State.

I John Pillsbury of Pennbrooke in the County of Herkensack and State of New Hampshire of full age depose and say, that I married a daughter of the Rev. Nehemiah Ordway formerly Minister of the Gospel of Middleton in said State, that said Ordway lived with me the last ten years of his life and died at my house upwards of ninety three years of age. And I find the following record in said Ordway's Book of records of Marriages now in my possession (to wit)
Married January fifteenth sixteen hundred seventy nine John Glidden and Abigail Mordough both of Wakefield —
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy from the aforesaid records, with the exception of the date, which is entered on the records in fair, legible figures, as follows, Married January 15 th 1779, John Glidden and Abigail Mordough both of Wakefield —
John Pillsbury
Sworn to April 1 st 1839 then the above named John Pillsbury personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed in presence
Before me Samuel Carlson Jr Justice of the peace _____ (over)

Merrimack ss } April 1 st AD 1839
I certify that I am well acquainted with John Dilsbury he has lived a near neighbour to me for about thirty years he is a man of truth and veracity whose character is good. I further certify that I was well acquainted with the Revd N. Shomide Prebendary for the last thirty years of his life was at his General have since his death examined the records, he left of Marriages or and that the certificate of John Dilsbury is substantially true Samuel Cochrane Justice of the peace
State of New Hampshire Merrimack ss
I Stephen C. Badger Clerk of the court Common Pleas within and for said County do here- by certify that Samuel Cochrane Jr. is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that the signatures above written purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the seal of said Court this sixth day of April Anno - Domini 1839
S. C. Badger Clerk of said Court

Abigail 2746 Glibston widow of John N. H. act 7 July 1838. Married 1779 died 1838 Allao 18 mo fm Hospersam NH line cap Solomon fel Poy
Daniel Gale Gilford PO NH

State of New Hampshire Strafford County ss. J. Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Henry Y. Simpson Esquire is a Judge of the Court aforesaid and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine in my belief.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of said Court this tenth day of October A.D. 1838 -
J. Cogswell, Clerk

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
STRAFFORD SS.—On this Eighth day of October 1838 personally appeared before me  Henry Y. Simpson one of the judges of the court of Common pleas for said County of Strafford Abigail Glidden a resident of Merimack in the County of Strafford, aged eighty years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of
John Glidden who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That according to the best of my belief he enlisted in the summer of 1775, in Captain Rowe's Company in Col. Poore's Regiment and served in said War about two years as will appear by the affidavits of Enock Rowe, Nathaniel Gilman and Winthrop Wiggin.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Glidden on the seventh day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine that her husband, the aforesaid John Glidden died on the 18th day of March in the year 1818 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz : at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before Abigail X Glidden
Henry Y. Simpson Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire
I hereby certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
Henry Y. Simpson

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Glidden , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W.F. 16587.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Summer 1775 . Pvt Winthrop Rows Gink Poor N H   1776 1 year Winburn Adams Poor          
Battles engaged in, Expedition to Canada.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Turnington, Rockingham Co. N.H.
Date of application for pension, Oct 8. 1838. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Meredith, Strafford Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, 80 years.
Remarks: Soldier married Jan. 15. 1779 Abigail Merdough of Wakefield. He died at Epping in 1818. A son is mentioned, name not stated.
For date of last payment of Widows Pension and to whom paid and date of her death apply to the Auditor for the Interior Dept. U.S. Treasury Dept citing the following data: "Abigail, wid. John Glidden, Ct 3936 issued Aug 20. 1839 at $60 per annum from Mar 4. 1836, Act July 7. 1838 Respectfully, N.H. Agency!"
Commissioner.

1916 Aug 9. History to Mr. Geo. W. Chamberlain. M.B.H.
1921, Feb. 12 Hist. to Mrs. Lucia G. Strong - Ex-
1923 March 8 - Mrs. E. A. Strong inf. as to photostat notes and.
1923 March 30 - Photostat copies mailed to Mrs. E. A. Strong and
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
16357
Abigail Glidden Widow of John Glidden Rev. Rev. War
Act: _____
July 9 th 1838
Index: - Vol. _____
a
Page _____
276
[Arrangement of 1870.]

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Henry G. Thompson is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Stratford duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 10th day of January 1833 and will expire on the Thirtieth day of December 1865 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 9th day of August 1839
Josiah Stevens
Secretary of State.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel Hale is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Strickland duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 10th day of August 18 38 and will expire on the 10th day of August 18 43 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 9th day of August 18 39
Josiah Stevens
Secretary of State.

I Ebenezer Pitman of Meredith in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged sixty three years, do hereby say that I live in the vicinity of Abigail Glidden the widow of John Glidden who died in Effingham several years since as have been informed, and that the said Abigail Glidden now remains the widow of the said John Glidden and has not been married since his death - I have been acquainted with the aforesaid Widow Glidden about twenty years -
Ebenezer Pitman
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss. - October 10 th 1838
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written, hereby certifying that the above named deponent is a credible witness
Before me, Daniel Gale Jas. Pease
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss. - I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Daniel Gale is a Magistrate as above and that the above signature purporting to be his is in my belief genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this tenth day of October 1838. F. Cogswell, Clerk

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Kelley is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 24 th day of November 18 38 and will expire on the 24 th day of November 18 39 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 9 th day of August 18 39
Josiah Stevens Jr.
Secretary of State.

I Enoch Rowe of the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged eighty years in August 1830. Do testify and say that I am a native of Kensington in said County and a son of Worthen Rowe who was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army in the year 1775. On the last day of December in that year I rode the family horse to Winter Hill near Boston for my father to ride home to Kensington. The next morning before my father left for home I enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt. Warren Adams in Col. Ross Regiment (being a New Hampshire Regiment) for the term of one year; and served out that term, in the course of which the Company marched to New York Albany and into Canada under Gen. Sullivan. John Glidden of said Kensington was a soldier with me in said Company. I believe he was in the service in 1775 under my father and continued in it through the whole of the year 1776 but I am not certain of his being in my father's company although I believe such was the case. I recollect of his being in the service with me in 1776. He had the small pox in the summer of that year, near the Canada line, and I tended him through it. He enlisted as I supposed for the year and according to the best of my recollection (and I believe that I am not mistaken) he served in said Company through the year.

I knew Sam Gladden before the war and after the war. He served his time with an uncle of mine in said Kensington, and after the war he lived on some land which I owned in Wakefield. — I do not, at this moment, recollect any man now living who served in the same company with Gladden & myself excepting Winthrop Wiggins now of Kensington — He bears I believe in the Company through the whole year. Enoch Rowe
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham September
20 th 1830 Then the said Enoch Rowe who I believe is a credible person and his statements entitled to credit, made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
John Kelly Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Gilson of Exeter New Hampshire aged seventy eight years and upwards tell my and say that I was well acquainted with John Glidden a soldier in the Revolutionary Army from my very boyhood as his parents lived in my father's family before the war and he served his time with Col. Balch's Dr within a few miles of my father. He went into the Army about the time of Bunkerhill battle as a soldier, I think in Capt. Hovey's company in Col. Poor's Regiment. In October 1775 I visited the Army at Winter Hill and said Glidden was then a soldier there and went with me into several of the forts in that neighborhood. He continued in the Army through the next year 1776 and was with the Northern Army when he had the small pox - as I understood at the time and have no doubt of the fact. — After leaving the Army he lived at my father's and with my brother - and with me - for a considerable time. but for several years past I have not seen him. A son of his worked with me some months about thirty years ago and he was

Third, I should think, about twenty years of age or perhaps a little older. — Nath. Gilman
State of New Hampshire
Providence September
10. 1838 Then the said Nathaniel Gilman being made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. — And I certify that he is a highly respectable man and credible witness and that his statements are entitled to credit.
John Kelley Justice of the Peace

I Winthrop Wagon of Kensington in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Ninety three years and upwards testify and say that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution in the company com- manded by Winburn Adams and in the Regiment commanded by Enoch Root from the time of the Mountain Kill battle in 1775 to the last day of December in the same year when my first enlistment expired. I there immediately enlisted in the same company for the further term of one year, and served out said term in Massachusetts in New York and in Canada. John Glidden, in the year 1776 was a soldier in the same company with me - The company was enlisted for one year, and said Glidden served for that term according to my best re- collection and full belief. He was with us in the company in our march from Winter Hill to New York and in our expedition to and from Canada - We served out the year and at the close of the year were with Genl Washington in Penn- sylvania and New Jersey and a part of our company of which said Glid- den was one and I was another agreed to remain in the service six weeks longer till the militia came in - and we did remain according to my best recollection. At the close of the year 1775 Captain Root's company was disbanded; their term having expired: and probably some of his soldiers enlisted into Root's Adams Company - Glidden may have been of the number but I do not recollect of seeing him or having any acquaintance with him until he joined the company of Capt Adams to which I belonged

but I very well recollect of his serving in 1776 in the same company with me as before stated. -Winthrop Wiggins
State of New Hampshire
Rochester ss. On the tenth day of September A.D. 1830 the above named Winthrop who I certify is a credible person and his statements whilst under oath made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
John Willey Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss
I, Sara B. Hott Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County do hereby certify that John Kelley is a justice of the Peace for said County and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his connected with the affi- davits of Enoch Rowe, Nathaniel Gilman, and Winthrop Wiggins are genuine and in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this tenth day of September A.D. 1830
S. B. Hott Clerk

936. Mc Knight Bldg Minneapolis Minn.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions.
Please send me at this address the military record of John Glidden who enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Kensington, Rockingham Co. N.H.
Very sincerely
Jan. 10, 1921 (Mrs.) Lucia Glidden Strong

HOTEL BUCKINGHAM MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
✓ 15 cent money order W
March 18, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions Rev: Wardustin Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir, -
Please find enclosed money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior for fifteen cents, the amount named for photostat of one page - of the declaration dated Oct 8, 1838 of the Rev. War pensioner, Abigail Glidden wife of John Glidden, W. 16587
I do not need the certificate -
Very respectfully,
Lucia Glidden Strong (Mrs. E. Q.)
Mail to 838, McKnight Bldg - Minneapolis.

M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
MAR 20 1923 19
Chief of Rec. War Section Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. E. A. Strong draft No. 185,556 for $ 15 / 100 requesting post office address as per letter herewith.
Copies mailed & Law Division noted March 30-1923 AWJ.
Very respectfully, O. J. RANDALL Chief of Division.
[Handwritten signature]
FINA
(MF 42)  Date March 30 1923  No. 7-16587  Name John Glidden Res. War Section  Photographic copies wanted of / pieces, consisting of / pages. Remarks: Ext. MMH Chief Res. War Sec. Div. MMH  Serial _____ No. _____ Law Clerk.

(MF 42)  Date March 30 1922  Name John Glidden No. 7-16587  Res. War Section  Photographic copies wanted of 1 pieces, consisting of 1 pages.  Remarks: Ext. 11111 Chief Res. War Sec. Div. Serial No. _____ Low Clerk. _____

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER

Rem. Sec. 27
HOTEL BUCKINGHAM MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
March 4, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions Dept. of the Interior Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: — I am told that I can have made a photostat made of the complete wording of the application for pension (in- cluding her signature) made by Abigail (Merdough) Glidden Oct. 8, 1838, for services in the Revolutionary War by her husband John Glidden — W. F. 16.587, etc.
Please tell me what amount of money will cover the cost of making and send- ing the photostat and I will remit at once.
Very sincerely
Lucia Glidden Strong (Mrs. E. A.) Mail address 838, McKnight Bldg.

[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to include:] Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, [Signature] [Title]

Rev Sec left
✓ 29 Hillside Avenue,
Malden, Mass July 29, 1916.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
According to the deposition of Jeremiah Glidden Abigail Glidden, a Revolutionary pensioner, died at Meredith, N. H. 16 Sept. 1840.
I do not find her name in the Census of 1840 under Meredith but the name Abigail Gordon. She was the widow of John Glidden who d. about 1815 and she may have married again as Gordon.
Will you kindly furnish me with a copy of such facts as are contained in Abigail Glidden's pension application papers?
Very truly, Geo. W. Chamberlain

Rev. War Section.
ans March 8, 1933.
Mrs. E. A. Strong, 838 Mo Knight Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.
Madam;
In response to your letter of the 4th instant, you are advised that if you desire photostat copies of the declaration dated October 8, 1838 of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Abigail Glidden, wife of John Glidden, W. 18587, the same will be furnished you under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1918, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.
There is one page to be copied. The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.